Harwood Strong: Trauma, grief & recovery

On October 8, 2016, a wrong-way driver on I-89 killed five teenagers, four of whom were juniors at Harwood Union High School in Moretown, Vermont, and the fifth was a Waitsfield teenager who had been a student at Harwood through 8th grade. Several of the teenagers who were killed were close friends of my family; my son was their friend and classmate. I reflected on this tragedy in a recent op-ed.

How do you deal with a tragedy of this magnitude? How does trauma affect people? What is the new normal? That is the topic of our Vermont Conversation. My guest in the first half hour is Margaret Joyal, and Brigid Nease is the guest in the second half hour. (October 26, 2016 broadcast),

Margaret Joyal, Director, Counseling and Psychological Services, Washington County Mental Health; on temporary assignment to coordinate recovery process at Harwood Union High School

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About the Show

The Vermont Conversation with host David Goodman airs live every Wednesday at 1 PM on WDEV Radio Vermont, 550 AM / 96.1 FM. The weekly show is sponsored by Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (vbsr.org). The Vermont Conversation features interviews with people who are making a difference in the worlds of business, politics, education, the environment and activism.

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Vermont journalist David Goodman is the author of ten books on topics ranging from Tropical Storm Irene to politics to backcountry skiing. He's hard to find on powder days but easy to find at dgoodman.net